{"id":5557,"date":"2022-01-28T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2022-01-28T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:05:00","slug":"how-to-control-those-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5557","title":{"rendered":"How to Control Those Boys!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(2 Chron. 33:11f.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to control those boys? <br>Got to put a ring in that nose (11) <br>Bind &#8217;em with bronze chains <br>(Manasseh kind of lost his brains!) <br>Re-established that pagan worship <br>That King Hezekiah had destroyed; (3) <br>Worshiped those idols to be buoyed. <br>So he prayed to the Lord in his distress (12) <br>Wanted out o&#8217; that nasty mess; <br>Got all humble as a fellow is wont to do <br>When the Lord dumps on us that doo-doo. <br>And the Lord was moved by his entreaty; (13) <br>Brought him back to that fair city, <br>And Manasseh knew the Lord was God! <br>Forsook those idols and the hot bods; (15) <br>Threw them all outside Jerusalem<br>Set up an altar to worship Him. (16)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A.m. 28 Jan., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(2 Chron. 33:11f.) How to control those boys? Got to put a ring in that nose (11) Bind &#8217;em with bronze chains (Manasseh kind of lost his brains!) Re-established that pagan worship That King Hezekiah had destroyed; (3) Worshiped those idols to be buoyed. So he prayed to the Lord in his distress (12) Wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}